From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5DD31A171181D31184A100508B5ED9890123C250@MSP0-MSX1.Ingenix.com> From: Dean Ash To: "'9fans@cse.psu.edu'" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: RE: [9fans] vga and ethernet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:09:56 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d864274c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >'the practice of programming' but I couldn't find it anywhere in my copy of the book, It's in one of the first couple of chapters in mine (version 2?) It would have helped if I had looked a little closer at the fonts though. Once the first person pointed out that it wasn't a one but a lower case L I saw the difference. However now I've been told the first char after the pound sign is a lower case L (ell) and it's a capital I (eye) followed by zero. :-) Not really sure of anything anymore. I'll have to pay much more attention to what I'm reading. (although isn't that always the case) I'm still now closer to figuring out how to get a network connection over a TCP/IP network where clients get addresses from DHCP :-) -----Original Message----- From: andrey mirtchovski [mailto:aam396@mail.usask.ca] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:59 PM To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] vga and ethernet When I was much younger than today (hehe) and was making my first steps in the fine art of debugging my own programs, I read something that stuck with me forever -- one's programs will be much more readable if ambiguity over character interpratation (l vs 1 vs I, O vs 0 in some fonts, etc) is avoided. I.e. choose variable names wisely so that they can't be misinterpreted by the reader... I am left with the impression that I read it initially in 'the practice of programming' but I couldn't find it anywhere in my copy of the book, so I can't attribute it to anyone right now :( andrey On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 baldwin@vitanuova.com wrote: > it's '#I0', not '#10' -- that's I (eye), not 1 (one), > followed by 0 (zero), not O (oh). > >